 | Liars by Liars
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.47 Simply amazing. These guys take it to a whole new level. If you don't believe me, check out the video for "Plaster Casts of Everything".
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 | Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Buy new: $9.96 / Used from: $5.50 An all around great album. A bit of Ween, a bit of Beck and half a pound of Gorgonzola. The track "Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters" sounds like something stolen from Kate Bush. But it is good.
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 | Sun Giant EP by Fleet Foxes
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.51 Not this album but the self-titled one. A bunch of hippie hipsters who sound like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Many good songs here but too much of it will turn you into a granola bar
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 | Panic Prevention by Jamie T.
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $1.64 A brilliant album from the boy the locals call potty mouth.
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 | Cryptograms by Deerhunter
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.83 Again amazon isn't up to date with their tunes. NOT this album but the latest called "Microcastle". Some late 80's type stuff but also the track "Nothing Ever Happened" which has that lingering early 90's Halifax sound.
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 | Carnavas by Silversun Pickups
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.50 A total rip-off of the grunge era sound but if you're looking for something new and something old at the same time nothing beats it.
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 | Blue Screen Life by Pinback
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.59 These two guys from California weave magic melodies and when their sound guy isn't napping they put on an awesome live show.
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 | Made In the Dark by Hot Chip
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.36 These brits know their electro-pop. Both this and the previous album are worth checking out.
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 | The Lost Riots by Hope of the States
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $0.01 A great album from a band that doesn't exist anymore. These guys were pretty sweet in a throw yourself off a building kind of way.
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 | We Can Create by Maps
Buy used from: $6.49 This guy knows how to make sweet tunes with his laptop and is able to get real people to put on a great sounding live show.
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 | The Loon by Tapes 'n Tapes
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.10 Great album.
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 | Plans by Death Cab for Cutie
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.96 It is not an emotional fish but an equally emotional album from the guys in Bellingham.
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 | Zazen Boys, Vol. 2 by Zazen Boys
Buy used from: $44.89 These shintoists are probably the best at what they do. Amazing sound, supposedly unbeatable lyrics and a drummer who is big in Japan and everywhere else for that matter. He looks like a gorilla behind his kit.
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 | Youth & Young Manhood by Kings of Leon
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $6.28 All their stuff is great southern swamp rock style blues but their first album is still tops.
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 | Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.87 SWEET!
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 | The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.46 Fuzzy tunes from a fuzzy band that is now unfortunately extinct.
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 | Wintersleep by Wintersleep
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.07 Haligonian boys do good with this album. The track "Assembly Lines" is a winner. Lots of great tunes off this album as well as the others. You might find a bit of Eddie Vedder seeping through the mic and their live shows are packed to the rafters with ridiculously wasted frat boys but don't let that deter you.
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 | Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.78 Sun Kil Moon a.k.a Mark Kozelek has a voice that will put you in a coma. Sometimes that can be a good thing.
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 | Cease to Begin by Band of Horses
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.99 Both this album and their latest are masterpieces.
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 | Perfect from Now On by Built to Spill
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.48 You'll be perfect after listening to this gem.
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 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.15 This is one sweet album. Not sure about the new one as one can only take so much of a guy who sounds like David Byrne.
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 | Rubber Factory by The Black Keys
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.03 These two dudes make good ol'blues. Move over White Stripes cause these guys REALLY know what they're doing and they don't dress like clowns. The track "10am Automatic" sounds like Jimmy has risen from the dead and their latest album "Attack and Release" ain't half bad either.
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 | Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.34 Trippy and hip-hoppy. Perhaps the best trip-hop album ever. A classic!
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 | Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.98 All their stuff is great. This is the album that had me hooked and I kept with them ever since. People are strange and especially so if they are from Iceland.
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 | Silent Shout by The Knife
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.98 Great album and great title track.
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 | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.97 Unbelievable!
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 | Hot Shots II by The Beta Band
Buy used from: $0.99 Anything these guys put out there is brilliant. Also check out "King Biscuit Time" which is where some of them ended up once they split.
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 | Moon Safari by Air
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.84 Chill electronica from a pair of Frenchies. This album plus their first: "Premiers Symptômes" are must haves.
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 | Systems Officer by Systems Officer
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.63 Pinback side project which is solid gold.
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 | Teenager of the Year by Frank Black
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $1.98 ALWAYS, ALWAYS, BET ON BLACK!
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 | The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.80 Eventhough this assclown is the most self-righteous egotistical pompous piece of crap to come out of the U.K. since Paul McCartney, this album is still amazing. Screw you Damon Gough!
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 | Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs
Buy used from: $12.80 This is what happens when you kick the chicks off the drums. Know what I'm saying? Great album. Great live.
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 | Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.96 Great album from these guys when they still understood modesty.
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 | Chill Out by The KLF
Buy used from: $49.99 They're totally justified but NOT ancient. Probably one of the best albums to help you morph with your lay-z-boy (with the help of some green of course).
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 | Trapped In by Division of Laura Lee
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $0.01 I think this is just an E.P but the title track off this one and many other tunes from these Swedes are pretty cool.
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